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- Overland tourism in the Istanbul to Cairo route: ‘real holidays’ or McDonaldised niche tourism?Publication . Sarmento, João; Brito-Henriques, EduardoSince the beginning of the 1990s tourism scholars and academics have been claiming that tourism has changed. By and large the mid-1980s is generally considered the moment when that transformation occurred, or, at least, when it became noticeable. Urry (1990), one of earliest theorists who lead this debate, built an all-inclusive theory which frames the new trends in the tourism industry in the broader context of social transformations in the ‘Late Capitalism’ period, and consequently, tourism has been repeatedly considered to have changed because new forms of post-Fordist (or post-Modern) consumption have emerged [...]
- A sweet and amnesic present: the postcolonial landscape and memory makings in Cape VerdePublication . Sarmento, JoãoThe construction of memory in landscapes is a complex process which is embedded in webs of political and economic power. Often history is twisted and bended to better serve the current interests of the hegemonic forces at play. In this paper I attempt to explore how memory is at work in three different sites in Santiago Island, Cape Verde: an old fort and a historical town; a concentration camp; and a global resort. The three sites participate in the erasure, maintenance and creation of memory in different ways, forging new forms of collective identity, which are embedded in local as well as global forces and processes. Through an analysis of the changes taking place on these sites, this paper suggests that while the country lives on foreign aid and attempts to embrace neo-liberal practices, it fails not only to provide basic services to the population but to engage critically with its history and geography.